Tag: Parenting
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Toxic Co-Parenting: Heartbreaking Facts You Need To Know (Pt 1)
Being married to a narcissist, or a “toxic” person, is devastating. But trying to co-parent with one is the equivalent of trying to smuggle snowballs through the Sahara desert in your pockets – It simply can’t be done. Yes, we know, this sounds melodramatic and ridiculous, but the truth is exactly that: co-parenting with a…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 3)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about how social media affects our parenting choices. If you’re only finding this series now, we recommend that you spend a few minutes getting caught up here, and then we’ll pick up where we left off last time on the issue of spanking, with…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 2)
Thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at how social media impacts the choices people make, and in this case we’re looking specifically at parenting. As we mentioned in the previous article, social media can impact the health and medical choices parents make for their kids, for example: vaccines and whether or not to…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 1)
Social media affects almost every aspect of our lives these days. Even in situations where we aren’t aware of it, like the unconscious expectations we have for spousal relationships and what a vacation destination will look like. However one of the areas where it has the largest impact seems to be on parenting. The things…
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I Don’t Want Friend of The Court Involved in my Divorce! (Pt 2)
Hi there, thanks for joining us again for this discussion on Friend of the Court in Michigan, and what to do if you don’t want them involved in your divorce. As we pointed out in the previous article, Friend of the Court is the “eyes and ears” of the family court in Michigan but not…
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I Don’t Want Friend of The Court Involved in my Divorce! (Pt 1)
Friend of the Court (FOC) is an office in the Michigan court system that provides a wide range of services, particularly when it comes to issues like child support and custody. They are meant to provide a supporting role, primarily to the family court itself, as the “eyes and ears” of the court. For many…
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What Happens When Divorced Parents Don’t Agree on Vaccinations? (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. We’ve been talking about a very controversial issue when it comes to divorce. That’s right, vaccinations. And no matter where you fall on the spectrum of opinions, chances are you feel very strongly about whether or not parents should vaccinate their kids. However, one thing we’re trying NOT to do…
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What Happens When Divorced Parents Don’t Agree on Vaccinations? (Pt 1)
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably seen some of the vaxxers versus anti-vaxxers debate online. Although debate is probably too mild a word. It’s a full blown war, with people hurling verbal bombs at one another on Facebook like they’re getting paid for it. So you can probably imagine just how hostile it…
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Why Establishing Paternity is Important For a Child in Michigan (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about paternity in Michigan. Unlike other articles we’ve done in the past on the subject of paternity, this one doesn’t deal with how it gets established, or what methods are preferable to mothers in Michigan. Instead, we’ve been looking at a less talked about…
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Why Establishing Paternity is Important For a Child in Michigan (Pt 1)
Establishing paternity is done in one of three ways here in Michigan, namely an affidavit of parentage, a DNA test, or a court order. But knowing how it’s established isn’t the same thing as know WHY it should be established. There are many reasons why establishing paternity is important, and we’d like to share a…